Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1995-12-29
1999-07-20
Peng, John K.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
348 6, 348 12, 348 13, 455 51, 455 61, H04N 710, H04N 714
Patent
active
059262044
ABSTRACT:
A management system and method for use with on-demand cable programming, wherein a customer telephones a cable supplier and requests that a particular video program be played. The management system uses a plurality of video sources, wherein each of the video sources is capable of playing the requested video program. A telephone switch system and routing table are used to route incoming customer requests directly to the interface in control of the video source serving the region from where the request originated. The volume of requests received from each customer region serviced by the cable supplier is evaluated. If the volume of customer requests surpasses a threshold level, then additional video sources are added to the cable network by the cable supplier. The cable head ends that service the various customer regions are then reassigned among the new number of video sources so that the volume of requests is generally evenly divided among the multiple video sources, concurrently, the routing table is changed to maintain the geographic association between customer regions and each appropriate video source.
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AT&T Corp
Lo Linus H.
Peng John K.
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